Parking patrols

There is a major problem with parking around Community Memorial Hospital, with little or no parking spaces open.

What little space remains is vigilantly patrolled by the Ventura Police Department.

The parking garage on N. Brent St. is always full and only patients of the office building are allowed in there. The hospital parking garage is also always full.

This is blatant police harassment, with discrimination against elderly and ill patients who cannot walk far. Rarely is one's hospital business done in under one hour.

The officer doing this is very aggressive. For example he goes as far as carefully taking out his tape measure for how far the vehicle is from the curb. He also appears to be on a power trip, as trying to reason with him results in immediate anger.

This is the most aggressive and knitpicky parking enforcement I have ever seen.

These patrols and fines are blatant attempts to balance the city's budget on the backs of its citizens. This together with coding violation raids and pedestrian infractions are altogether too much.

Meanwhile the downtown and promenade are filled with homeless, sometimes preying on people and conducting drug deals. These places need police patrols.

It is a sick system. The city of Ventura is preying on its citizens. This must stop.